AD 215 LONDON (RE)GENERATION

Description

A lively, thought-provoking exploration of the contemporary regeneration of London:
Plans to regenerate East London and transform the capital are integral to the vision of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This title brings into focus notions of regeneration within the specific context of London: what does the term actually mean, how has it been applied and is it being applied? Historical overviews of large-scale interventions from the past are combined with case studies of new and planned schemes, and explorations of how change and rejuvenation can retain or enhance the city’s unique sense of place and identity. Looking beyond the Games, the title will look at the direction in which regeneration is going in a post-recession economy. How can a long-established, highly protected and even cherished city, like London, continue to renew and expand? Unlike Chinese or Middle Eastern cities, London is constrained by a wide range of factors from heritage protection and geography to finance and democratic accountability; yet the city continues to grow, change and develop, either incrementally or through big, dramatic leaps, like the Olympic Park and King’s Cross. In this way, London provides a fascinating case study of how a developed, Western city can negotiate and greet the pressures for change.

Contributors: Michael Batty, Peter Bishop, Matthew Carmona, Murray Fraser, Matthew Gandy, Robert Harbison, Peter Murray and Austin Williams.
Architects: Sir Terry Farrell and Richard McCormac.
Projects: King’s Cross, the London 2012 Games and the Shard

CONTENTS

• David Littlefield: (Re)generation: Place, Memory, Identity
• Murray Fraser: The Global Architectural Influences on London
• Edward Denison: London Bridge / The Shard
• Peter Bishop: Approaches to Regeneration
• David Littlefield: King’s Cross
• Matthew Carmona: The London Way: The Politics of London’s Strategic Design
• David Littlefield: Bankside Urban Forest
• Matthew Gandy: NEO Bankside
• Michael Batty: Urban Regeneration as Self-Organisation
• Hattie Hartman: Olympic Park, Stratford
• Austin Williams: What is a City?
• David Littlefield: White City: The Art of Erasure and Forgetting the Olympic Games
• Robert Harbison: A New Overground Line and the Sence of Place
• Edward Denison: Battersea / Nine Elms
• Sir Terry Farrell: The Role of the Estates: From Agriculture to Urbiculture
• Mike Devereux: Trompes L’ Oeil
• Louis Rice: The Power of the Image
• Steven Tomlinson: Centring of the Olympic Fringe
• Sir Richard MacCormac: The Thames
• Peter Murray: Some Key Figures in London’s Regeneration
• David Littlefield: Elephant and Castle
• Hilary Powell: Works In/On//Around///Behind Progress
• Matthew Gandy: Where does the City End?

136 pages, color ills / 21 x 27,5 cm / English